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What does rhetorical mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rhetorical? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
  2. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
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But there's not much you can do about yahoos or rhetorical hooligans but keep your own head on straight and let them chatter.
Cavell's writing displays the rhetorical features that we've seen in novelists and prose writers alike as they perform their thoughts.
Well, this compositional choice surely started with the rhetorical opposition between the local rat-catchers and the western scientists.
This is almost an encyclopedia of rhetorical strategy and poetic form, from the sonnet and the Keatsian ode to concrete poetry and acrostics.
Some people sneer at a metaphorical reading of scripture and Tolkien himself was opposed to allegory as a rhetorical form.
Within the substitutional mode, anachronism was neither an aberration nor a mere rhetorical device, but a structural condition of artifacts.

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